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Six Limitations of Artificial Intelligence As We Know It
You’d better hope it doesn’t run your life, as Robert J. Marks explains to Larry LinenschmidtThe list is a selection from “Bingecast: Robert J. Marks on the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence,” a discussion between Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute and Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks. The focus on why we mistakenly attribute understanding and creativity to computers. The interview was originally published by the Hill Country Institute and is reproduced with thanks. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/Mind-Matters-097-Robert-Marks.mp3 Here is a partial transcript, listing six limits of AI as we know it: (The Show Notes, Additional Resources, and a link to the full transcript are below.) 1. Computers can do a great deal but, by their nature, they are limited to algorithms. Larry L. Linenschmidt: When I read the term “classical computer,” how does a computer function? Let’s build on…
Bingecast: Robert J. Marks on the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
Robert J. Marks talks with Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute about nature and limitations of artificial intelligence from a computer science perspective including the misattribution of creativity and understanding to computers. Other Larry L. Linenschmidt podcasts from the Hill Country Institute are available at HillCountryInstitute.org. We appreciate the permission of the Hill Country Institute to rebroadcast this…
Thinking Outside the Box Is Not a Disease
Enforced orthodoxy, often described euphemistically as “scientific consensus,” is an impediment to scienceAt the Skeptical Inquirer, we read about the“Nobel Disease,” whereby Nobel Prize-winning scientists ditch critical thinking and embrace unorthodox views. In reality, unorthodoxy helped them win the Prize.
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Should AI Hold Patents? The Flash-of-Genius Answer
To understand why AI cannot independently invent, let’s look at how famous inventors have actually done itLike Excel, AI assists programmers in their design work. AI can search through trillions of possibilities, using data from a million sources, to find a successful design. But the structure of the search and the source of the data is the choice of the programmer. A look at how famous inventors developed products that changed the world sheds some light on the process.
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Calvin and Hobbes Explain Why AI Will Never Rule the Battlefield
The creativity needed for successful command is beyond the capability of AIAI sifts enormous amounts of accumulated data. But successful military strategy often depends on creating a new approach to a problem, one that lies outside the historical data available to the opposing forces. Muhammad Ali and Hannibal were famous for using such strategies.
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Ruling: AIs Can’t Hold Patents
The US Patent Office has ruled that only "natural persons" can own patents, not machinesAn issue left untouched is whether AI can, in principle, be creative in any event. There is no real evidence for that. The big worry, perhaps, is not being replaced by one’s tools but being ruled by them.
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Is There a Creativity Module in the Brain?
Both hemispheres are important for creativity, according to recent research, but the adventure lies beyondWhat we are really learning is that minute mapping of the brain is not likely to give us a complete explanation of creativity. Let alone a means of control. Answers, when they appear, lie in the immaterial world of the mind.
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Will AI Ever Write a Critically Acclaimed Novel?
AI is starting to write and some of the copy reads quite well. Other writing is garbage. What’s the capability and limitation of writing by AI? Will AI ever write a novel that wins the Nobel Prize for Literature? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss creativity, artificial intelligence, and writing. Show Notes 00:37 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor…
Can We Upload Ourselves to a Computer and Live Forever?
There are some who say immortality is available if we can upload our minds to a computer. This presupposes our minds are computable and can be duplicated by a computer. Are our minds computable? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss consciousness, cognition, and artificial intelligence. Show Notes 00:39 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)…
The Turing Test is Dead. Long Live The Lovelace Test
The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from a human. Many think that Turing’s proposal for intelligence, especially creativity, has been proven inadequate. Is the Lovelace test a better alternative? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss the Turing test, the Lovelace test, and machine…
The Unexpected and the Myth of Creative Computers – Part II
Robert J. Marks talks with Larry L. Linenschmidt of the Hill Country Institute about the misattribution of creativity and understanding to computers. This is Part 2 of 2 parts. Other Larry L. Linenschmidt podcasts from the Hill Country Institute are available at HillCountryInstitute.org. We appreciate the permission of the Hill Country Institute to rebroadcast this podcast on Mind Matters. Show…
Sorry, AI can’t do our thinking for us
J. C. Derrick asked Robert J. Marks whether AI can outthink people or make humans immortal
Fan Tries Programming AI Jazz, Gets Lots and Lots of AI…
Jazz is spontaneous, but spontaneous noise is not jazzAs Gioia says, jazz depends on the “personality of the individual musician.” And the blindspot of AI creativity is: There’s no one home.
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Can We Write Creative Computer Programs?
As Robert J. Marks tells World Radio, people have tried making computers creative but no luck
AI Can’t Do Jazz Because Spontaneity Is at Jazz’s Core
AI “artists”—in all the forms presently available — merely replay their programmingAs Ted Gioia makes clear in his discussion of jazz, swirling a bit of randomness into the mix will not help.
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Could AI Authentically Create Anything?
Brendan Dixon: The first question posed to me as an artist was,“What are you trying to say?”Du Sautoy believes that AI will “in the distant future” achieve consciousness. For that, we have no evidence. It is a statement of religious faith akin to that of Anthony Levandowski's AI Church.
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What One Thing Do AI, Evolution, and Entrepreneurship All Need?
They all need an input of creativity to make things happen.Programs for AI and evolution share the limitation that nothing creative happens without the guidance of a programmer. And a thriving economy based on creative entrepreneurship is one of the things that cannot be automated.
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Why AI Fails To Actually Create Things
Only one of the traits du Sautoy suggests is an essential part of creativityDu Sautoy’s fourth trait—“originality of a truly independent nature”—is a useful part of the definition of creativity. It is, however, the one trait that he admits is missing from AI’s “creative” attempts
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The Underwhelming Creativity of AI
The technology regurgitates, it does not createArtists have nothing to fear from AI if, as philosopher of mind Sean Dorrance Kelly says, creativity does not follow computational rules.
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